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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do a write portable programs?
Message-ID: <374@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 11:13:59 GMT
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In article <2515@ingr.UUCP> jones@ingr.UUCP (Mark Jones) writes:
>Instead of using NULL, use ZERO, and don't worry about casting it.

This is a joke, right?  Yes, it works for assignment to variables,
but it is _not_ good for passing to functions without prototypes!

>Do not rely on the size of anything.  If there is a need for a 32-bit
>number, do it like this:
>
>#if sizeof(int) == 4

Now I *know* it's a joke!  "sizeof" is not legal in #if.